comma chameleon

this was gonna be a two words post

but i realized that i am the only person in the World who would have understood it...

backstory:

back in 1983 or so, i lurved listening to Boy George and the Culture Club singing Do You Really Want to Hurt Me and Karma Chameleon
this was waaaay before song lyrics and their meanings were accessible at our fingertips...
anywho... 

i thought he was singing 

Come-ah, come-ah come-ah, come-ah chameleon
yeah...

in my defense, it's a hummable tune
which is what i mostly do when i sing along with a song
and i didn't know what karma was anyway

a few years ago, Zen Chic came out with a fabric line named Comma...

i dunno if it's still available anywhere, but i thought it was pretty cool at the time and bought three charm packs and some yardage, thinking i would make it up using Mama Spark's Charmalade Quilt pattern at the Moda Bakeshop...

but i never did get it made...

 so it lived in its pizza box with a label that said COMMA...

i was looking through the Great Pile of Stuff and said to myself
self, make something with these COMMA charm packs and get them outta here 

so i put together a bunch of half square triangles 
and then some pinwheels
added some borders 
and came up with a flimsy that i thought would make a nice little summer quilt
 and i KNEW was gonna have comma in its name
if i ever found a backing for it...

Melissa thought i was nuts...

she said it was OBVIOUSLY a Halloween quilt

and when we went looking for backing fabric at one of those Joann sales - you know the kind - 40% off plus another 25% off the total purchase including sale and clearance items
 Melissa led me to a Marvel Halloween pumpkin bolt... 

i thought it was hideous...

but the price was right...

sigh...

here is Comma Chameleon:

does that look like Halloween to you?!?

and this is the hideous Marvel backing:

i lurve Marvel comics as much as The Next Guy, but that fabric is ugly...

pieced and bound by me
beautifully quilted with Halloween cats and bats and witches by Liz Bowman
and given to Melissa as soon as it was finished cuz the back changes it from a nice little summer quilt to an ugly Halloween quilt...


People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.
Myles Munroe